Africa-Press – South-Africa. First, it was a sheep carcass, then a dead chicken.
Search and rescue teams on Friday discovered the remains of dead animals scattered across a stream of water in Inanda, north of Durban.
The teams, made up of police and emergency personnel, combed streams to look for missing persons believed to be swept away by the heavy floods on 11 April.
The teams first met at Virginia airport before being deployed to various identified areas. Some left by helicopter, others drove in a convoy of vehicles. They were followed by a few journalists.
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Around 13:00, the team stopped on the bridge where Ntombenhle Nkosi, 15, was swept away.
Her disabled father, Joseph Nkosi, 56, was joined by residents who were searching for Ntombenhle.
They suspected that Ntombenhle was not far from her home, which was a stone’s throw away from the bridge where she was last seen.
Deceased
The soft-spoken Nkosi has lost hope that his daughter is alive.
“All I want is to find her bones and bury them,” he said.
Walking with the aid of a walking stick, Nkosi was seen pulling out debris in his search for Ntombenhle.
He said:
Nkosi said he was struggling to eat.
He said he battled to answer questions from Ntombenhle’s two siblings as to her whereabouts.
“My two little children want to know where their elder sister is. They ask me when she is coming home. I am struggling to respond to them, that she has been taken away by the floods.
“They have developed the fear of walking to the bridge. They don’t want to go to school without their sister. I am shattered. My main wish is to find Ntombenhle,” Nkosi said.
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